Facebook censorship is under fire in Norway after a well-known author and a news editor were banned from the social media behemoth for posting the icon Vietnam War photo of Kim Phuc, best known as the ‘Napalm Girl’.

The whole thing began around two weeks ago when author and journalist Tom Egeland says he was banned from Facebook for violating its ‘community standards’. According to Egeland, the offending post included the Pulitzer Prize-winning photo from AP photographer Nick Ut that shows a naked Kim Phuc fleeing a napalm attack in 1972.

Because the then nine-year-old Kim Phuc is naked in the photo, it was deleted by Facebook. The social media giant’s decision led to a strong backlash in Norway, with many Norwegian users posting the photo in defiance of what many felt was unnecessary censorship of an important historical image.

Norwegian newspaper Dagsavisen reached the foundation of the now 53-year-old Kim Phuc, who made it clear that she disagreed with Facebook’s decision.

“Kim is saddened by those who would focus on the nudity in the historic picture rather than the powerful message it conveys”, spokesperson Anne Bayin told Dagsavisen. “She fully supports the documentary image taken by Nick Ut as a moment of truth that captures the horror of war and its effects on innocent victims.”

On Monday, Nettavisen editor Gunnar Stavrum wrote an editorial blasting Facebook’s censorship. When he shared a link to the piece along with the photo to his personal Facebook page, it too was deleted. Not only that, the editor was banned from the social media site for 24 hours.

“When Facebook removes an editorial from a Norwegian newspaper, it shows the online community a lack of respect for editorial freedom unlike anything I have ever seen,” Stavrum told his website in a follow-up.

Facebook has declined to answer Norwegian media inquiries into the matter but has continued to delete the image.